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Pluralism Conference

Pluralism Conference NEWS AND VIEWS John Hick University of Birmingham In September 2003 a conference was held at Birmingham University, UK, of Chris- tians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs who all hold the “pluralist” view that no one religion is the one and only true or uniquely salvific faith, but that, in the words of the thirteenth-century Sufi thinker Rumi, “The lamps are different but the Light is the same: it comes from beyond.” The conveners were Professors Perry Schmidt-Leukel of Glasgow University, Paul Knitter of Xavier University (Cincin- nati), Leonard Swidler of Temple University (Philadelphia), and John Hick of Birm- ingham University. My own account of the purpose of the conference is that we are academics who are committed and practicing believers within but not official repre- sentatives of (in rough order of origin) the Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian (both Catholic and Protestant), Muslim, and Sikh faiths. We are acutely aware that throughout history almost all human conflicts have been validated and intensified by a religious sanction. God has been claimed to be on both sides of every war. This has been possible because each of the great world faiths has either assumed or asserted its own unique superiority http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Buddhist-Christian Studies University of Hawai'I Press

Pluralism Conference

Hick, John.
Buddhist-Christian Studies , Volume 24 – Jan 10, 2005
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NEWS AND VIEWS John Hick University of Birmingham In September 2003 a conference was held at Birmingham University, UK, of Chris- tians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs who all hold the “pluralist” view that no one religion is the one and only true or uniquely salvific faith, but that, in the words of the thirteenth-century Sufi thinker Rumi, “The lamps are different but the Light is the same: it comes from beyond.” The conveners were Professors Perry Schmidt-Leukel of Glasgow University, Paul Knitter of Xavier University (Cincin- nati), Leonard Swidler of Temple University (Philadelphia), and John Hick of Birm- ingham University. My own account of the purpose of the conference is that we are academics who are committed and practicing believers within but not official repre- sentatives of (in rough order of origin) the Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian (both Catholic and Protestant), Muslim, and Sikh faiths. We are acutely aware that throughout history almost all human conflicts have been validated and intensified by a religious sanction. God has been claimed to be on both sides of every war. This has been possible because each of the great world faiths has either assumed or asserted its own unique superiority

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Published: Jan 10, 2005

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